Milli's Entry into Shails Memory of Teachers Festival.

      Flowers for My Teachers.   Walking off to School through all of the season, hitching the occasional ride if weather was too inhospitable to cater for small feet. Or later riding my bike free wheeling down the steep hills or wheeling it up the steepest inclines. When pedalling or walking was too difficult for tired legs, just getting to school is memorable for me. There were so many interesting gardens along the way and it was always a walk of a longer duration for us, as my sister and I would spy any pretty foliage or flowers that just happened to stick their pretty little heads out through the garden fences. You see these little delights were all fondly bunched into a pretty little posy for the teacher of the day. Sometimes it may be an offering of fruit also, if the fruit was overhanging the fence and in that scenario it meant extra breakfast for us. We both munched away, walking along the road verges, heading towards our school. Some of the teachers who benefited from our bounty I will write about here in a verse.     Flowers for My Teachers.     In The Higher schools there was Miss De Vrie's She made history an adventure for me. We learnt by charades and I was Cleopatra's sentry Sitting in class, next to the handsome, Mark Antony. I loved art, literature, history and sport Miss Burdon, art was your world and your thought. With pleasure I drew in my art book for you Your remark, ridiculous and peculiar how that rang true. Grade seven saw a big change on my behalf I had Mr Shebella he knew from the start. With trust and encouragement he taught from the heart The very best that year he worked with me, to impart. Ah! Successive teachers they came as I went further They all left their marks in one way or another. The years seemed to speed by and out of school too. Mrs Oatly was special more like a mother, to her GLB crew. Grade three the year was so wonderful as we sewed a moo, moo My best friend in school, Pam, she made the same one too. Mrs Wrobel kept me busy, doing so many great things with Pam The cottage cheese we made often, I thank you for that, Ma'am I have so many to thank, for my days of learning Today is no different as my mind keeps on yearning. For more knowledge and discoveries, there is so much to read The biggest teacher is life and for you to succeed An ability to seek good teachers, is a perfect formula indeed!   Milli 2007